Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

Los Angeles, California 90095-1575

Abstract: Vanessa Brown (1928- ) was born in Vienna, Austria. She appeared in Broadway plays and films. In 1962, she became a writer-coordinator
for the
Voice of America. She worked as a correspondent with the
Los Angeles Times Service (1970-74), and with the National Public Radio (1973-74). The collection contains interviews with Brown, correspondence,
scrapbooks, and cassette tapes of classes taught by Brown.

Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Brown was born on March 24, 1928 in Vienna, Austria; came to the U.S. in 1938; BA, UCLA, 1949; appeared in Broadway plays,
As you Like it (1950) and
The Seven Year Itch (1952-54); appeared in films, including
Youth Runs Wild (1941),
The Heiress (1948), and
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952); married Mark R. Sandrich, 1959; became writer-coordinator for
Voice of America in 1962; correspondent with
Los Angeles Times Service, 1970-74, and National Public Radio, 1973-74; writer, KTLA-TV, 1972-74; worked for presidential campaigns of Adlai
Stevenson, 1956, and John F. Kennedy, 1960; artist with one-woman show at Edgardo Costa Gallery, Beverly Hills, California;
founder, American Acting Company.

Scope and Content

Collection contains bibliographical reference works and other books in which Vanessa Brown is mentioned. Also includes interviews
with Brown, correspondence, scrapbooks, and cassette tapes of classes taught by Brown.

Indexing Terms

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